Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 143 193
Rank change year-on-year -48 +50 -20
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 15 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.08% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £451 £422 £263
25th Percentile £515 £483 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +21.43% -7.08%
75th Percentile £628 £658 £550
90th Percentile £674 £676 £600
England median daily rate £530 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -14.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,577 924 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.51% 31.16% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 641 966
10th Percentile £280 £263 £234
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £678 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 26 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £17.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £27.22
Median % change year-on-year +79.25% -18.00% +20.53%
75th Percentile £80.20 £46.30 £59.61
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.25 £61.60
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -38 7 £588 -7.84% 4
Hampshire -30 6 £625 +7.76% 3
Berkshire -27 5 £606 - 4
Surrey -14 1 - - 3
Buckinghamshire -24 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (86.67%) Amazon S3
3 8 (53.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (26.67%) IaaS
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (13.33%) PaaS
8 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) Maven
3 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (20.00%) Gradle
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.67%) JPA
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) High Availability
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (20.00%) OO
7 3 (20.00%) OOP
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (20.00%) Runbook
7 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Statistics
7 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (20.00%) OCP
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 7 (46.67%) Ansible
3 5 (33.33%) Grafana
3 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (26.67%) Puppet
5 3 (20.00%) Data Guard
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (13.33%) systemd
7 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet